Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this does not mitigate well for a prospective owner to take on the airframe in an easily-delivered and/or operational manner . |
| 2 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 3 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 4 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 5 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 6 | Mineral workings and industrial processes have created interesting habitats such as inland salt marshes , extensive deposits rich in lime and other substrates that do not occur naturally in a particular region . |
| 7 | This always included milk and green bananas , though the latter do not feature prominently on a wild orang 's menu . |
| 8 | He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat . |
| 9 | Obviously the factory system with its complicated industrial mechanism can not function profitably without a large and growing demand ready and willing to absorb its products as fast as they are produced . |
| 10 | These differ from those of the Nuer in that they do not fuse together into a single , all-pervasive deity . |
| 11 | Frequently , therefore , their explanations will not fit together into a single picture . |
| 12 | The SDI gearbox will not fit directly into a SIII but may be fitted with the transfer box conversion as supplied by Ian Ashcroft 0582 761081 or by converting your transfer box and mounting it remotely behind the main gearbox . |
| 13 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 14 | By now Modigliani could not transform overnight into a conventional husband , and Jeanne accepted him with his failings . |
| 15 | But he said the courts would not proceed solely on a childish whim . |
| 16 | This is partly because people , and their pains , do not respond equally to a particular drug . |
| 17 | The Boeing 707 was now a safer aeroplane , but it was felt in AIB that some important matters of principle and practice needed to be changed so that the same sort of thing could not happen again with a different type of aircraft . |
| 18 | The 31-year-old ex-paratrooper 's prize for retaining his title at Wembley on Saturday night was £10,000 , which does not go far for a full-time body builder who downs half a dozen eggs after his breakfast cereal and eight to 10 chicken breasts a day when ‘ bulking up ’ . |
| 19 | Thus we can not rely solely on a single source , that is , the evidence given by one person . |
| 20 | Yet in our day-to-day lives , we are witnesses to communication breakdowns , misinterpretations and blockages , where the transmitter 's attitudes , values , experiences , language , posture , etc. do not link together in a consistent message , or where the message itself has inaccuracies , or where the receiver 's attitudes , values and perceptions cause so much filtering of the message that the intended information does not get through — what is heard is what the receiver wanted to hear , not what was said . |
| 21 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 22 | Just as you can not live easily under a leaking roof , so you can not write easily on a chair that is not right for you . |
| 23 | ‘ I must emphasise , ’ said Acheson , ‘ that the present scientific evidence on the ill effects of nitrate on human health does not point unarguably to a precise standard . |
| 24 | In reality , some business processes do not operate best as a networked ‘ blob ’ , so many organisations actually operate to a hybrid model somewhere between Figures 2.1 and 2.2 . |
| 25 | For instance , if you have chosen a lovely maple frame , with its attractive grain , it would not blend well with a pale pink background — a brown or gold colour scheme would be far better . |
| 26 | More thoughtful Conservatives are aware that a movement towards greater inequality can not continue indefinitely in a democratic society . |
| 27 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 28 | So I do n't speak really as a committed fox hunt or anti fox hunter er I speak erm , after a consideration of the matter er that that what have at issue here is er , the , the right of the tenant . |
| 29 | The imagination does n't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree . |
| 30 | ( c ) Do n't stick rigidly to a predetermined language syllabus — allow the activities that take place in the class to range freely and develop naturally and let the occurrence of stimulating events that happen in the environment influence the vocabulary and structures that are introduced and practised in each lesson . |